G400 Max and SB Live = SAME IRQ????

[Bad Sector]

Any ideas on how to free this up? I have SB16 emulation disabled. Both appear on IRQ 15. I've tried redirecting them thru Soyo 6BA+IV BIOS both w/ IRQ steering (haha, don't laugh), in addtion to "forcing" VGA IRQ and trying different slots. Nothing works.

The ironic part of it is , that aside from a game or two where I seem to be getting a bit of sound degradation, everything else seems to function quite well! Still I'd like to rectify it if possible.

According to Sisoft 99Pro, I have IRQs 5,9,14 available. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Bad Sector

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P3 600E OCed to 866 MHz (6x144.4 FSB) w/Alpha P3125s, Soyo 6BA+IV, WD Expert 20.5GB 7200/ATA66 HDD, 128MB Micron-8E/e, G400 Max, 20" Dell/Sony D2026T, 19" Gateway/Sony VX900T, IWill 2935UW scsi card, Afreey 56x EIDE CDRom, Matsushta 7503-B 8x/20x CD-R,Pioneer DVD303s

SCSI dvdrom, SB Live! X-Gamer,Creative WebCam GO Diamond SupraExpress 56e SP, Inwin Q500 Full Tower w/ 300W Power Supply, 14 case fans, blowers etc.




[This message has been edited by Bad Sector (edited 22 February 2000).]

[Mark F]

Well usually it's done by not running the SB in the slot next to the AGP.
But, I see you have already tried that.
Do you have PNP OC enabled in the BIOS?

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a DVD...
and burped out a movie

[RoGuE]

Don't worry about it, my G400 Max and SBLive! currently share the same IRQ. Never had a problem.

If you really want to stop them sharing, you will have to try it in different PCI slots, as Mark mentioned above, PCI1 (nearly) always shares with AGP, and on many motherboards so does PCI5.

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Microstar K7Pro (MS-6195) Motherboard
AMD Athlon 550 @ 900MHz
256MB PC-100 CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max
Matrox Rainbow Runner G-Series
Creative Soundblaster Live! Player 1024
Promise FastTak66 RAID Controller
2 x 13.5GB IBM ATA/66 HDD's
Panasonic SR-8584 6x DVD-ROM
Yamaha CRW8424 IDE CDR/RW
Panasonic SuperDisk LS-120
Netgear FA310TX 100m/bit PCI NIC

[Tony Seattle]

I am having the Dickens of the time with my SB Live or perhaps my Promise Raid controller and it's/their interaction with other cards! I don't know if it's the Drivers or what but I have ordered a new card from Promise and swapped it out, changed the cables etc.. to no avail! I have the same HDs as you, and it seems that after I load the drivers, what ever card I load the drivers for after that starts the problems.. reading from C: BSOD and DLL errors! Also the SB Live! Value gives me a VMU BSOD message. I can swap out the Sound Cards (Vortwx2 and SB Live!) between the 2 systems, but the problem can start after the G400 driver install too! All using the latest drivers/Bios (when avail.), nothing O/C'd!

Any suggestions?

Systems:

K7-600
SD-11 FIC
256 non-ecc Toshiba PC-100
27.5 WD 7200-66
Prophet DDR 32
Vortex 2
Kenwood True 72X
Sony CD-R
Mitsumi USB CD-RW
Int. Zip
3 Com TE PCI Nic
Razer 2000 mouse
Alpha HO-K7 cooler
Digital Doctor II

and

Coppermine 600-EB
VA-6 Abit
128 Kingsmax Tiny BGA PC-133 CAS2
2 X 13.5 IBM 7200-66
G400 DH
SB Live! value
Afree 56X
Hitachi DVD
Ext. Zip
Intel PCI Nic
MS Intelieye Intelimouse
Promise Fasttrack66 RAID Controller
Hollywood Plus MPEG Decoder
Alpha HO-P3 cooler
Digital Doctor I

Tony

MCSE/MCT


[This message has been edited by Tony Seattle (edited 22 February 2000).]